Well, today we saw it with our own eyes. There is no sugar coating things, there is no denying the reality. Chuck Amato has been revealed as a fraud, a charlatan, a snake oil salesman. We have the talent, we don’t have the heart or the guts to be a champion. And that can be traced directly to Chuck the Clown, with his doofus sunglasses and his Dorothy-like red shoes. As a gentleman in the parking lot pointed out today – we are a victim of our own hype – too much show and too little basic Football 101. It’s all swagger and fireworks and scoreboard intros. And we’ve flushed a great opportunity down the toilet. A team takes on the personality of its coach all right, and the emperor has no clothes. We’ve made too much of an investment in this program to lose to a vastly outgunned UNC team. In fact, it’s a good thing UNC played so badly in the first half – against a legitimate opponent playing decently, State loses by 3 or 4 touchdowns. When you get outcoached by John Bunting 2 years in a row, it’s time to hang up the whistle. Even the lemmings who call the WPTF post-game show aren’t hiding from that.
So what do we do? For 2008, my hope for the nation is drafting a centrist, pragmatic problem solver (Governor Mark Warner of Virginia), to save us from a “lesser of two evils” Bill Frist/Hillary Clinton match-up. For the NC State football program, it’s Draft Norm Chow. Somebody reserve the internet url now, because Norm would kill to come back. Maybe it would work, maybe not – but he couldn’t screw it up any worse than Dorothy.
It’s a dark day, my friends. I am an attorney, who works with many UNC grads, including several delusional ones. Nobody thought UNC could possibly win this game. Nobody thought they could even keep it close. Instead, they won, should have won, could even have won by 20+ if they weren’t as sloppy as us in the first half.
How do you play a game with your bitter rival, a team that beat you on a controversial call the year before, and only play hard for 5 minutes out of 60? It boggles the mind. CHUCK MUST GO.
